Brawley, California · Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers · NAICS 425120
4inspections
21citation items
$25,445current penalties
Mar 19, 2025last inspection
OSHA has inspected Foster Feed Yard 4 times in California since 2001.
The latest one began on Mar 19, 2025 as a planned inspection, in Brawley.
Those inspections ended with 21 citation items: 4 serious and 17 other-than-serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $50,910 and now stand at $25,445, 50% lower after settlements or reviews.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for wholesale employers since 2015 is $3,427, and Foster Feed Yard averages $2,400 (1 cited inspection).
Foster Feed Yard also files yearly injury logs with OSHA, summarized below.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
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Incident on Feb 13, 2014: Employee cuts leg by conveyor belt
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on February 13, 2014, Employee #1 was performing some maintenance for a belt on a conveyor system, tightening a chain. Worker #1 turn ed the system on, believing that Employee #1 had cleared the area. When the conv eyor belt started to move, it caused Employee #1 to fall back against the belt a nd the machine caught his left leg. Paramedics were called and he was treated on -site for injuries he received to his left shin and ankle before being transport ed to the UCSD Trauma Center.
Incident on Nov 20, 2001: Employee loses leg after stepping into an unguarded auger
On November 20, 2001, Employee #1, a truck driver and coowner of Olivas and Sons Trucking Company, had arrived on site to deliver a load of grain to Foster Feed Yard, Incorporated. He went looking for someone to turn on the hoppers for him, and he wandered into a barn. The barn had an auger inset into the barn floor to process the feed and push it into hoppers. The auger was guarded by homemade me tal bars running horizontally and vertically. Employee #1 stepped into the auger and his foot went through the guards into the auger blades. With his leg still stuck in the auger, a surgeon amputated Employee #1's leg. Employee #1 was hospi talized for additional treatment on his leg.
From the Form 300A summaries employers file with OSHA each year. Rate = recordable cases per 100 full-time workers.
In 2025, the Brawley site logged 3 recordable injuries or illnesses among about 25 workers: 10.6 per 100 full-time workers, against a median of 4.7 for its industry. Those cases cost 1 days away from work.
Site and year
Workers
Cases
Days-away cases
Rate
Industry median
Foster Feed Yard, Inc.
Brawley · 2025
25
3
1
10.6
4.7
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.
